Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources

Abbreviation: FHIR

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FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources) is designed to enable the exchange of healthcare-related information. This includes clinical data as well as healthcare-related administrative, public health and research data. It covers both human and veterinary medicine and is intended to be usable worldwide in a wide variety of contexts, including inpatient, ambulatory care, acute care, long-term care, community care, allied health.

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.25k4yp' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 10:20, 22 May 2018 (approved):
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Before: FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources) is designed to enable the exchange of healthcare-related information. This includes clinical data as well as healthcare-related administrative, public health and research data. It covers both human and veterinary medicine and is intended to be usable worldwide in a wide variety of contexts, including inpatient, ambulatory care, acute care, long-term care, community care, allied health, etc.
After: FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources) is designed to enable the exchange of healthcare-related information. This includes clinical data as well as healthcare-related administrative, public health and research data. It covers both human and veterinary medicine and is intended to be usable worldwide in a wide variety of contexts, including inpatient, ambulatory care, acute care, long-term care, community care, allied health.

Edits to 'https://fairsharing.org/FAIRsharing.25k4yp' by 'The FAIRsharing Team' at 17:37, 31 Aug 2016 (approved):
'description' has been modified:
Before: FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources) is designed to enable the exchange of healthcare-related information. This includes clinical data as well as healthcare-related administrative, public health and research data. It covers both human and veterinary medicine and is intended to be useable world-wide in a wide variety of contexts, including in-patient, ambulatory care, acute care, long-term care, community care, allied health, etc. The FHIR specification is targeted to individuals and organizations developing software and architecting interoperable solutions that will be using FHIR. The FHIR specification does not attempt to define good or best clinical practices|nor does it provide guidance on user interfaces or workflows. Guidance in these areas may be useful|but it is outside of FHIR's scope. Because of FHIR's focus on implementation|many aspects of the specification deal with the technical underpinings of the exchange of clinical information between electronic systems. This section provides an introduction to what FHIR provides and tries to highlight those portions of the specification that are likely to be of most interest to the clinical community while skipping over some of the technical minutiae of interoperability. However|clinical readers are welcome to explore some of the more technical areas if they find them of interest.
After: FHIR (Fast Health Interoperability Resources) is designed to enable the exchange of healthcare-related information. This includes clinical data as well as healthcare-related administrative, public health and research data. It covers both human and veterinary medicine and is intended to be usable worldwide in a wide variety of contexts, including inpatient, ambulatory care, acute care, long-term care, community care, allied health, etc.

Medical Data Models MDM-Portal (Medical Data-Models) is a meta-data registry for creating, analysing, sharing and reusing medical forms, developed by the Institute of Medical Informatics, University of Muenster in Germany.
see also http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26868052
Electronic forms for documentation of patient data are an integral part within the workflow of physicians. A huge amount of data is collected either through routine documentation forms (EHRs) for electronic health records or as case report forms (CRFs) for clinical trials. This raises major scientific challenges for health care, since different health information systems are not necessarily compatible with each other and thus information exchange of structured data is hampered.
Software vendors provide a variety of individual documentation forms according to their standard contracts, which function as isolated applications. Furthermore, free availability of those forms is rarely the case. Currently less than 5 % of medical forms are freely accessible.
Based on this lack of transparency harmonization of data models in health care is extremely cumbersome, thus work and know-how of completed clinical trials and routine documentation in hospitals are hard to be re-used.
The MDM-Portal serves as an infrastructure for academic (non-commercial) medical research to contribute a solution to this problem. It already contains more than 6,000 system-independent forms (CDISC ODM Format, www.cdisc.org, Operational Data Model) with more than 470,000 data-elements. This enables researchers to view, discuss, download and export forms in most common technical formats such as PDF, CSV, Excel, SQL, SPSS, R, etc. A growing user community will lead to a growing database of medical forms. In this matter, we would like to encourage all medical researchers to register and add forms and discuss existing forms.

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